# Delaying the Hover Captions (Kirupa Tutorial)

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delaying-the-hover-captions-kirupa-tutorial/182681
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [March 20, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delaying-the-hover-captions-kirupa-tutorial/182681 "2006-03-20T18:15:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Grant\_B](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/grant_b/32/1821_2.png) [@Grant\_B](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Grant_B)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delaying-the-hover-captions-kirupa-tutorial/182681/1 "2006-03-20T18:15:20Z")

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As per this tutorial: [http://kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/hover\_captions.htm](http://kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/hover_captions.htm)

Is there a simple way to delay the appearance of the hover caption by a second or two using actionscript? (as opposed to a tween in the mc)

Thanks.

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### Author: ![Digitalosophy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/digitalosophy/32/1114_2.png) [@Digitalosophy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Digitalosophy)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delaying-the-hover-captions-kirupa-tutorial/182681/2 "2006-03-20T18:31:13Z")

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setInterval();

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### Author: ![Grant\_B](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/grant_b/32/1821_2.png) [@Grant\_B](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Grant_B)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2006, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delaying-the-hover-captions-kirupa-tutorial/182681/3 "2006-03-20T20:37:55Z")

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yep. That’ll do it.

Thank You.

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### Author: ![Digitalosophy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/digitalosophy/32/1114_2.png) [@Digitalosophy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Digitalosophy)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2006, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delaying-the-hover-captions-kirupa-tutorial/182681/4 "2006-03-20T20:49:35Z")

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Anytime